Comparison

Idle City Builder ! vs Train Hotel

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Idle City Builder !

Build and grow a thriving city empire from humble beginnings. Customize buildings, manage villagers, and explore for resources and treasures. Fulfill visitor requests and strategically reset your city for permanent bonuses.

Highlights
  • Build and customize city layout
  • Unlock and upgrade buildings
  • Assign villagers to resource production
  • Send explorers on expeditions
  • Fulfill visitor requests and trade
  • Reset city for permanent perks
Features
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Create and grow your own thriving empire — start small, stack up, and watch your city come to life with new buildings, resources, and upgrades! CUSTOMIZE Stack houses to form cool vibrant city. Unlock several different types of buildings. Move your buildings to create your perfect layout. Change villager skins to personalize your city. Buy decorations like amusement park rides and more. Total landscaping freedom in the end game EXPLORE Send explorers on expeditions to gather resources and discover treasures. Discover new feature buildings as your city expands MANAGE Assign your villagers to work to optimize resource production. Command them to gather resources around your city VISITORS Fulfill visitor requests and trade resources with them. Decorate your city to see visitors interact with it REBUILD Sell your old city to restart building a new one. Unlock a reset feature that grants permanent perks (bonuses). Discover new map themes with reset Idle City Builder offers all this — and much more! Build, manage, explore, and create the city of your dreams! Please find our Privacy Policy at this link https://www.funcellgames.com/privacy-policy Terms of Use at this link https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Train Hotel

Manage a unique train hotel where guests arrive at each station. Serve food, provide rest, and let them enjoy the scenery to earn revenue. Use earnings to upgrade facilities and attract more customers for a challenging business simulation.

Highlights
  • Manage a train hotel
  • Serve guests at stations
  • Earn revenue from guest activities
  • Upgrade hotel facilities
  • Attract more guests
  • Optimize viewing areas
Features
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In this unique casual game, you will manage a distinctive train hotel. The train keeps operating along the track. Whenever it stops at a station, new guests will board. Inside the hotel, customers can enjoy delicious food, have a comfortable rest, and admire the beautiful scenery along the way. Every action of the tourists, whether it's tasting food, staying for a rest, or stopping to enjoy the view, can bring you revenue. After accumulating these revenues, you can upgrade the train hotel in all aspects, such as adding more luxurious room facilities, enriching the food and beverage varieties, and optimizing the viewing area, etc., to attract more guests, obtain more revenue, and start an interesting and challenging journey of operating a train hotel.

Screenshots

Idle City Builder !4 screens
Train Hotel4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Idle City Builder ! at every 2 weeks against Train Hotel's every 9 months. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Idle City Builder ! sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per 7 days and Train Hotel sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Idle City Builder ! against 4.7 for Train Hotel. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 755 and 1.3K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 30% of Idle City Builder !'s written reviews are positive against 24% of Train Hotel's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Idle City Builder ! ships an update every 2 weeks, Train Hotel every 9 months. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Idle City Builder ! versus Train Hotel: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIdle City Builder !Train Hotel
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (755 ratings) — better4.7 (1.3K ratings)
Positive reviews30.3% of reviews — better24.4% of reviews
Number of ratings7551.3K — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 9 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size287 MB194 MB
Age rating9+4+
Developerfuncell Games Pvt LtdSolid Games

Customer experience

Idle City Builder !

All ratings755 ratings
Positive96.4%
Neutral1.1%
Negative2.5%
Written reviews33 reviews
Positive30.3%
Neutral9.1%
Negative60.6%

Train Hotel

All ratings1,146 ratings
Positive93.8%
Neutral3.7%
Negative2.5%
Written reviews45 reviews
Positive24.4%
Neutral13.3%
Negative62.2%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Idle City Builder !

Subscriptions1
  • Vip weekly subscription$7.997 Days
One-time9
  • Storage upgrade$2.99
  • First purchase Premium Bundle$3.99
  • No Ads IAP$4.99
Show 6 more
  • Premium Currency - Small$5.99
  • Production Boost Bundle$7.49
  • Disaster Blocker Bundle$7.49
  • Premium Currency - Medium$11.99
  • Star Road Elite Pass$14.99
  • No Ads Bundle$14.99
9 purchases

Train Hotel

One-time9
  • offlinetime_1$1.99
  • diamonds_1$1.99
  • offlinetime_2$4.99
Show 6 more
  • diamonds_2$4.99
  • offlinetime_3$9.99
  • diamonds_3$9.99
  • diamonds_4$19.99
  • diamonds_5$49.99
  • diamonds_6$99.99

Questions

Is Idle City Builder ! free?
Idle City Builder ! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Train Hotel free?
Train Hotel is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Idle City Builder ! or Train Hotel?
Idle City Builder ! is rated higher. Idle City Builder ! averages 4.8 out of 5 from 755 ratings, while Train Hotel averages 4.7 from 1.3K ratings.
Do Idle City Builder ! or Train Hotel have ads?
Both Idle City Builder ! and Train Hotel show ads.
Which is updated more often, Idle City Builder ! or Train Hotel?
Idle City Builder ! ships an update every 2 weeks, and Train Hotel every 9 months. Most recently, Idle City Builder ! was updated on November 5, 2026 and Train Hotel on November 5, 2026.

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